. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ARISARUM AEISTOLOCHIA 95 , Targ. {Arum Arisdrum, Linn.). A foot high : Ivs. cordate or somewliat hastate, long-stallied : spathe purple, incurved at the top.âHas many forms and many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. ABISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). Aristolochictee
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ARISARUM AEISTOLOCHIA 95 , Targ. {Arum Arisdrum, Linn.). A foot high : Ivs. cordate or somewliat hastate, long-stallied : spathe purple, incurved at the top.âHas many forms and many names. Can be grown in the open with pro- tection. ABISTOLOCHIA (named for supposed medicinal vir- tues). Aristolochicteeo!. Birthwokt. Many species of tropical and temperate regions, remarkable for the very odd- shaped fls. The corolla is want- ing, but the calyx is corolla like, tubular, variously bent, and com- monly tumid above the ovary ; stamens commonly G, short and adnate to the style (Fig. 140). Mostly woody twiners, the great- er part of them known to cult, only in warm glass-houses. Many species are evergreen. The ten- der species are cult, for the strik- ingly irregular and grotesque fls. Monogr. by Duchartre in De- Candolle's Prodromus, Vol. 15, Parti (1864). L. H. 139. Flower of Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia macrophylla. Showing the ovary at a, and the swelling of the calys-tube at &. Natural size. The best known representative of this genus is Aris- tolochia niacrophylta (or A. Sipho), the "Dutchman's Pipe," than which there is no better hardy climbing vine for shade or screen purposes. No insects or other trou- bles seem to mar its deep green foliage, for which it is most valued, as the fls. are small, siphon-shaped, and inconspicuous, in early spring soon after the Ivs. are formed. There are many tropical Aristolochias, the fls. of some of them being of extraordinary size, structure, and odor, but they are rarely seen on account of the last â characteristic, the odor being so suggestive of putridity as to make its proximity apparent to all, and even to deceive
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